Herman Van Rompuy

European Union governments agreed on Thursday that new economic sanctions on Russia will take effect on Friday but held out the prospect of canceling some or all of them next month if they believe a peace plan is working. EU ambassadors agreed in principle to the new sanctions last Friday but implementation was held up by a dispute over whether they should take effect now or whether the EU should give more time for a ceasefire in Ukraine to take hold. The ambassadors agreed at a meeting in Brussels that the new sanctions should take effect on Friday, when they will be published in the EU's Official Journal. "The ambassadors reserve the right...

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